Russia at War
Alexander Werth reported from the Soviet Union for the BBC and The Sunday Times throughout the war. His 1964 history combines what he saw at the time, including besieged Leningrad and liberated Kharkov, with a full narrative of the war on the Eastern Front.
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Anna Reid
He had been brought up in St Petersburg and emigrated with his family to Britain soon after the revolution [of 1917]. So not only was he an excellent writer, but unlike most of the foreign press corps had the enormous advantage of being bilingual. Part history and part memoir, his book is shrewd, vivid and even funny. Published in 1964, it’s still one of the best general histories of the war in Russia.
Interview · December 2011
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